Translator app now available for Windows Phone 8

The free Bing Translator app for Windows Phone continues to be one of the most popular and best reviewed applications for the Windows Phone – surpassing a million downloads and garnering average ratings between 4 and 5 stars since release. Combining Augmented Reality Translation using your camera, speech & text translation, word-of-the-day live tiles and a travel optimized offline mode the app has received rave reviews and has been highlighted as one of the most innovative translation apps on any platform.

For the past few weeks the team has been heads down getting the app ready and tested for the new phones running Windows Phone 8, and we are pleased to announce that owners of the new Windows Phone devices are now able to download the app from the App Store.

Oddly, searching "translator" in the wp store (both web and on the phone) resulted in every translator app except this one. And when I clicked "find more lenses" in my camera, this translator lens did not show up. So, thanks for supplying a direct link in this post!

Aiden

26 Nov 2012 9:31 PM

Does it work on Windows Phone 7.5

Lawrence

27 Nov 2012 9:07 PM

Feature request: Pinyin for non-alphabetic languages.

Danny Wang

29 Nov 2012 2:56 PM

Hi, I'm a master student of Applied Language Studies. A couple of weeks ago, I read the news of the debut of Microsoft voice translation on Microsoft forum in Tianjin, China. Recently I started reading articles on machine translation and became interested in this realm. But I know little about prerequisites to get into machine translation research. Would you please enlighten me on what kind of expectations you have for a member of your translator R&D team? Would it be possible for a linguistics student like me who barely knows about programming to join your group? Let me know your thoughts?

We’re working on it. When Japanese gets released, we’ll announce it on the forum site. So stay tuned. Thanks for your interests in our Translator app on Windows Phone 8! Takako (Microsoft Translator Team)

translatoruser

5 Feb 2013 9:10 AM

Do we have a timeline for additional language packs. I only see 5 languages I can download for use offline. Any timeline on when Russian will be released?

We are working on new language packs, and given the complexity of creating a customized “mini” translation system that is optimized for mobile/travel scenarios – we want to get it to a reasonable level of initial quality (especially given some of the languages we are working on are quite complex both for OCR and translation). Stay tuned to this blog for news :)